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Yup. (They might do something like I laid out just to get some extra coin in AD's pocket now while still keeping his original contract in place for 2018.)
It;s confusing because they did Cooks differently.
With Cooks, they just added the extension to an existing contract. (Same way it happened with Rodgers.)
But MAYBE they are going to do the "convert it to bonus money" thing with AD, in which case they're replacing the last year of the existing contract.
Though...we may be jumping the gun on that . It's possible that the AW/RW changes are not related to AD.
I said this on another board earlier and a time-honored and respected cap/contracts guy corrected me.
Me:
Another way to do it is to rewrite the old contract and add it to the new one. So if they did that, 2018 would be part of a new deal for AD, which is not how they did it with CooksTurns out that's not correct on my part. It's still 2 contracts. You can alter the 1st and add the 2nd but it's still 2.
Which is how Cooks's deal got reported. They said 5 years, 81 M. And that starts in 2019. No matter what they did to the money in 2018, it's still just altering an old contract. Which is exactly what they did with Whitworth and Woods, only, those 2 have more years left so they weren't just altering the last year of the old deal.
